"Michael Kairys" <kairys@comcast.net> wrote in message news:fk695v1ドルt2$1@ger.gmane.org... > By "fairly simple" I mean ones I'm working on that at this point are only > reading arguments and doing string operations. Sorry, one more thing, and probably "the" thing: system("notepad &"); So this is clearly fork-related, but I can't get it to fail consistently (or, right now, at all.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/